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Peter Thiel, whom you will also come to know, has famously become associated with one question, which he uses in interviews and over long dinners: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Ryan Holiday • Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
RECRUITING CONSPIRATORS
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Optimal creativity doesn’t happen in complete isolation. Breakthroughs almost always involve a collaborative component.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
In the end, it takes courage, humility, and determination to find the truth instead of the convenient. But it’s well worth the effort.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
and those technocrats who must be disrupted in order to rebuild an efficient government and public life.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
Tim Ferriss • Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, DAOs, and More | Noah Feldman on The Tim Ferriss Show
If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified against human error and the rampant human tendency for self-deception, and which can transcend our own tendencies for excessive “us vs. them” thinking.
Tyler Cowen • Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
test as you fly, fly as you test.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
radical pragmatist: still ambitious, aggressive, and rooted in ideals, but also imminently practical and guided by the possible.